Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 13:47:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: CyberPeasant <djv@bedford.net> Cc: James Snow <sno@teardrop.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Weird /home problem resolved Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808071346590.15104-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199808071345.JAA03773@lucy.bedford.net>
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On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, CyberPeasant wrote: > James Snow wrote: > > > > Well, I fixed the problem. > > > > Two of the people with whom I conversed about this problem could not > > replicate it on 2.2.6-RELEASE, while I was getting it on 2.2.7-STABLE and > > 3.0-SNAP. > > > > So, I replaced our /usr/bin/login with /usr/bin/login from 2.2.6 and > > voila, no more login problem. > > > > I can only assume then that there was a change made to this program or to > > one of the library functions that it calls between 2.2.6-RELEASE and one > > of the more recent releases. > > > > I'd be interested in knowing if anyone else can confirm this behaviour and > > fix it in a similar fashion. > > > > Big HMMM. do you have the 2.2.7 source for login handy? Email it > to me and I'll stare at it. Oof, this may be a bug. Here's the log entry for the one change between 2.2.6 and 2.2.7 for login.c: 1.12.2.10 Thu Apr 30 16:52:31 1998 UTC by peter CVS Tags: RELENG_2_2_7_RELEASE; Branch: RELENG_2_2 Diffs to 1.12.2.9 ; Diffs to 1.34 MFC: euid flip while accessing home directory early to get to .login_cap and to be able to chdir() on NFS served homes without root read access. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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